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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 6, 1998, 11:01 PM CST for Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1998, 11:01 PM CST (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1998, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 6, 9:25 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 9:25 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 925 PM CST TUE JAN 6 1998 FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM SOUTHWEST AR TO BETWEEN TYR AND GGG TO HOU WITH UPPER LOW OVER WEST TX. RADARS SHOWING WIDESPREAD RAIN ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING WEST INTO CENTRAL TX. MOST RAIN IS MODERATE...BUT OCCASIONALY THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS. SO SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE CURRENT FORECAST EXCEPT FOR COMESTIC PURPOSES. IV
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 6, 6:05 PM CST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
605 PM CST TUE JAN 6 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1200 AM 5 W LONGVIEW TX 4.5 INCH HAIL
01/06/98 GREGG GRAPEFRUIT TO SOFTBALL
SIZE HAIL AT CLARKSVILLE
CITY WENT THROUGH THE
ROOFS OF HOUSES. NOTE OF
INTEREST TWO TO THREE INCH
DRIFTS OF HAIL WERE STILL
ALONG THE SIDES OF HWY 300
BETWEEN LONGVIEW AND GILMER
AT 500 PM SOME 17 HOURS
AFTER IT FELL.
IVLocal storm report, Jan 6, 6:05 PM CST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
605 PM CST TUE JAN 6 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1200 AM 5 W LONGVIEW TX 4.5 INCH HAIL
01/06/98 GREGG GRAPEFRUIT TO SOFTBALL
SIZE HAIL AT CLARKSVILLE
CITY WENT THROUGH THE
ROOFS OF HOUSES. NOTE OF
INTEREST TWO TO THREE INCH
DRIFTS OF HAIL WERE STILL
ALONG THE SIDES OF HWY 300
BETWEEN LONGVIEW AND GILMER
AT 500 PM SOME 17 HOURS
AFTER IT FELL.
IVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 8:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Smith | 4 hr |
| Jan 6, 10:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 4 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.